Follow me on Twitter during the Academy Awards UPDATED!

Just an FYI that I’ll be posting regular updates on Twitter during the Academy Awards this Sunday tonight! If you’re already on Twitter, you can follow me here. Or, if you still think this whole Twitter thing is a big scam and/or is for losers, you can check out my feed at twitter.com/peterhartlaub and just keep hitting “refresh.” No one will ever know …

The Oscars start around 5 p.m. but I’ll be watching the red carpet starting somewhere between 3 and 4 p.m.

Disclaimer #1: I noticed that as of 7:30 a.m. Sunday, SFGate.com was generously featuring my Oscar picks in a prominent spot on the home page. Historically, I’m the Dick Vitale of Oscar picks — in that I make a lot of loud bold predictions, but about 35 percent of them are completely wrong. Hint: If you’re filling out your Oscar pool, I’m usually good at picking the right winners and upsets in the picture/director/acting/screenwriting & technical categories, and flail hopelessly with things like foreign film. And like everyone else (including, I suspect, the voters), I basically picked my Best Art Direction winner out of a hat.

Disclaimer #2: While I doubt I’m supposed to get drunk and write things on Twitter, I traditionally have one beer midway through the last hour of red carpet. And I’m built like a “Basketball Diaries”-era Leonardo DiCaprio & almost never drink. I’m hopeful this will help me translate anything Paul Giamatti says.

Disclaimer #4: If “Coming Home” from “Country Strong” wins Best Original Song, I will likely get in a serious funk and spend the rest of the night on Twitter posting photos of the Oscar party snack table.

PETER HARTLAUB is the pop culture critic at the San Francisco Chronicle and founder of this parenting blog, which admittedly sometimes often has nothing to do with parenting. Follow him on Twitter at www.twitter.com/peterhartlaub. Your questions answered on VYou at www.vyou.com/peterhartlaub.